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Software-Defined Network Testbed Using ZodiacFX a Hardware Switch for OpenFlow

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.25-9-2017.153150,
    author={Fahad Nazir and Qazi Humayun and R Badlishah Ahmad and Shamsul Jamel Elias},
    title={Software-Defined Network Testbed Using ZodiacFX a Hardware Switch for OpenFlow},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems},
    volume={4},
    number={14},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={SIS},
    year={2017},
    month={9},
    keywords={Software-Defined Network (SDN), Ryu Controller, OpenFlow.},
    doi={10.4108/eai.25-9-2017.153150}
}
  • Fahad Nazir
    Qazi Humayun
    R Badlishah Ahmad
    Shamsul Jamel Elias
    Year: 2017
    Software-Defined Network Testbed Using ZodiacFX a Hardware Switch for OpenFlow
    SIS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.25-9-2017.153150
Fahad Nazir1,*, Qazi Humayun2, R Badlishah Ahmad3, Shamsul Jamel Elias4
  • 1: University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Perlis Malaysia, E-mail: fahadnazirbhatti@gmail.com
  • 2: University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Perlis Malaysia, E-mail: qazi@unimap.edu.my
  • 3: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Malaysia, E-mail: badli2002@gmail.com
  • 4: Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Kedah, Malaysia, E-mail: shamsulje@kedah.uitm.edu.mysi
*Contact email: fahadnazirbhatti@gmail.com

Abstract

Software-defined network (SDN) is a new programmable networking designed to perform tasks easier by enabling network administrators to add network control via a centralized control platform and open interfaces. Common network use procedures such as traffic shifts, troubleshooting and various types of device configuration. Thus devices are needed to reconfigure with the network, in order to create a reaction with events. In this paper, we have developed an SDN testbed using Zodiac FX a hardware switch for OpenFlow experiment. This research is utilized Zodiac FX a hardware switch to test the usage and discuss about the SDN controllers. Ryu controller is configured for testbed development. The main contribution of this paper in threefold as follows: first it provides the configuration of Ryu controller, second, it provides the configuration of Zodiac FX switch and lastly it develops a simple SDN testbed for OpenFlow.

Keywords
Software-Defined Network (SDN), Ryu Controller, OpenFlow.
Received
2017-08-16
Accepted
2017-09-13
Published
2017-09-25
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.25-9-2017.153150

Copyright © 2017 Fahad Nazir et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.